Convict Lake

I had a great X'mas break, went to a ski trip at Mammoth Lakes with LZ and some friends. Woke up at 6am and slept at 10pm everyday during the trip. The lodge we stayed at wasn't a good choice for us young people (but the price and the location were good). First time snowboarding with LZ, she did much better than I expected. The snow condition was really good. On the way back to LA, we went to a lake called Convict Lake. The place looks so beautiful like a postcard picture. However it looked different last time I came. Took a lot of nice pictures, enjoyed the air and show there. It was nice to be out of town once in a while. And what's coming up? I'm going to Asia next Thursday for business. Time passes by fast, it's going to be 2010 in a few days!

Dr. Ishihara's new way of diet (and being healthy)

LZ has recently read a Chinese book "先別急著吃三餐 (Don't rush to eat 3 meals)", original written by a Japanese doctor Ishihara （石原結實). Dr. Ishihara indicates it's much healthier for people to eat only one meal per day. By eating 70% than usual, it helps our body to develop our immune system. How so? When our stomach is full, our leukocytes are full as well. At this point, if we have virus coming into our body, our leukocytes would be too full to eat the virus. Therefore, if we keep our body constantly in a kind of hungry mode, our body works the best. But you can't just changing your eating habit so quickly, so I'm following Dr. Ishihara's recipe for my 3 meals first, and then slowly adjust my body to eat less.

1. Breakfast: Homemade carrot and apple juice
2. Lunch: Soba
3. Dinner: Eat whatever you want.

(If you feel dizzy because of low blood sugar, you can consume some chocolates)

I downloaded a weight tracker application on my iphone to track my weight each day. Day 3, weight 119.6lbs. We'll see how this works.

Business Lawsuit

I've been collecting evidence of a business lawsuit we're going to have. What happened? One of our client owes us lots of $$$$$$$ for over a year. Dad told me one of the shareholder has used their company's money for her personal use. I talked to a few lawyers who specified in collecting debts about this, they all charge about 20-35% of the debt, or $350-450/hr. It's a lot of money. But if we don't take this action, we probably won't be able to get the money back. Plus, we're not the only company who's going to sue this client. I stayed my dad's office for a few days, tried to gather one year of invoices, purchase orders, and bill of ladings. They fit into a 1.5" binder. It was a lot of work, very chaotic... Some invoices have duplicated PO's, and some PO's have duplicated bill of ladings. But I did it, made them into 2 sets, one for lawyer, and one for us. We're ready to do it!